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Private Joseph Goudreau

Military service

Service number: 672595
Age: 31
Rank: Private
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)
Division: 22nd Bn.
Birth: July 2, 1886 St-Alban-de-Portneuf, Québec
Death: August 15, 1917 Hill 70, Lens, Pas-de-Calais, France

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Additional information

Baptized Joseph Hervé Progr Goudreau. Son of Georges Goudreau and Lucie Paquin.

Enlisted in the 167th Battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force, he was assigned to the 189th Battalion on September 8, 1916. He sailed for Great Britain on the 23rd and arrived in Liverpool on October 6. Upon arrival, he was assigned to the 69th Reserve Battalion and, on January 4, 1917, to the 10th Reserve Battalion. On April 17, he was transferred to the 22nd Battalion and on the 18th he crossed over to France. He was killed in action on August 15, 1917, in the trenches near Cité St-Laurent, on Hill 70, during the capture of the Catapult trench in the Battle of Lens, Pas-de-Calais.
 

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Page 245 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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